First time taking LSD, no go.

[corkraver]

Yesterday I bought a strip of paper that was divided into six sections. Being my first time, I was unsure how much to take but I also figured the doses weren't legit.

At 8:55 pm, I ripped off two hits and placed them under my tongue where I left the paper for 8ish minutes, chewed the paper, and swallowed it. Began to feel heavy and felt "dumbed down" a bit. At 9:30 after not experiencing any more of the trip, I took two more hits under the tongue.

The heavy feeling returned and I deemed it just a placebo effect. I was just curious if I somehow done something wrong in terms of ingesting the acid, or if I had just been ripped off. Either case would not surprise me.

Also, I have to hits of it left, what should with 'em? Try again, or throw it out?
Thanks

 

[solistus]

No, you took 'em correctly - sounds like you got ripped off. Since you didn't notice any negative effects from the 4 you took, I guess you might as well take the last 2 on the off chance that it was some freak occurrence last time and they're real tabs, but I can hardly imagine someone taking 4 hits of acid and not noticing any significant effects. Obviously we can't be sure about what's on your hits for sure, though. Maybe they were once good hits but were mishandled somehow; maybe it's just blank paper; maybe you have some very unusual body chemistry thing going on.

Are you on any prescription meds, particularly mood altering ones? A lot of anti-depressants and the like can dampen psychedelics, and a select few (5HT2a antagonists) can basically block them entirely. Have you ever tripped on any other psychedelics, such as mushrooms, or was this your first attempt with any psychedelic?

 

[corkraver]

I'm not currently on any medication and haven't been for a few years. I have a suspicion it was how it was packaged. It was wrapped in the tin foil from cigarette packs and when I picked it up, it was pouring rain so maybe the water diluted the LSD?

I have taken mushrooms, about two grams at once and also noticed no effects. Also I've taken PCP once or twice but nothing other than that.

 

[solistus]

If the tabs got wet directly that may have been it - I don't think non-chlorinated water would destroy the LSD per se, but it could easily wash it right off yer tabs. Given that you tried mushrooms once with no luck as well, the whole 'you have a weird body chemistry' possibility comes back into play as well, I suppose.

That's all I got - could be either of those things, or bunk tabs to begin with, or some combination of the three. I'll leave this open in case others can shed some more light on this.